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South Florida bills billions for HIV

By Robert David, Esq.

September 21, 2007 From The Washington Times By Jim McElhatton - Doctors and clinics in three Southern Florida counties account for most of the billions of dollars charged to Medicare nationwide for HIV and AIDS drugs and services, billing records show. Federal health care regulators call the lopsided billing patterns "egregious" and warn that South Florida ? particularly Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties ? is a potential hotbed for health care fraud, waste and abuse. "It"s all ultimately part of the money-driven, underground economy in Miami," said Benson B. Weintraub, a health care fraud lawyer based in Fort Lauderdale. According to a report this week by the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, health care providers in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach submitted $2...continue to full post

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